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Mental Floss: Genius Instruction Manual
Mental Floss: Genius Instruction Manual
Mental Floss: Genius Instruction Manual
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Mental Floss: Genius Instruction Manual

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Remember that time you bumped into Stephen Hawking at the clambake and his monologue on string theory went completely over your head? Man, was that awkward. Or remember the time you were at a party and someone asked, "Who knows how to perform open-heart surgery?" and you were the only one who didn't raise your hand?

Well, put all of that embarrassment behind you. Want to dazzle crowds with your wondrous knowledge of Shakespeare and surgeries? Want to learn to woo just like history's greatest minds? Well, start reading already! The Genius Instruction Manual is a foolproof finishing school for polishing your brain. All you've got to do is dive in.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
Release dateOct 13, 2009
ISBN9780061747687
Mental Floss: Genius Instruction Manual
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Editors of Mental Floss

Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur met as first year students at Duke University. Ignoring the lures of law school and investment banking, the pair co-founded mental_floss and have been grinning ever since. Maggie Koerth-Baker is a freelance journalist and a former assistant editor at mental_floss magazine, where she consistently astounded Will and Mangesh with her amazingness.

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    Want to be a genius? Reading this book would certainly get you closer. A great little somewhat tongue in cheek book about the nature of genius. Enjoy it to your heart’s content. If you read this and don’t come away with an appreciation that there is a little bit of genius in all of us, and that all geniuses are a little bit dense, please right it again.
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    Nice little collection of trivia facts/things one ought to know pass as a genius. Amusing and informative.

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